From today on is the king

Chapter 722 721. Penny
With a roar from Rasheed Wallace, Liu Mang and Boozer embraced and walked onto the court.

For the Eagles, the starting lineup of Liu Mang, Prince, Raheem, Rasheed Wallace, and Ratliff played.

Liu Mang looked at the opposite side, Marbury and Hardaway, Shandon Anderson, Kurt Thomas, Dibaken Mutombo played.

"Stephen Marbury, ability rating 90 (peak), offense 92, defense 71, passing 91..."

Liu Mang knew that this season was the peak of Marbury. Of course, the day after the peak was the moment of decline. Even if this moment was stronger than any other moment in his career, Marbury had already reached his strongest year.

Through the observation of Marbury’s data before the game, Liu Mang found that the month before Marbury was sold by the Suns to the Knicks, that is, the period from early January to mid-February, when the Knicks were brought to the top eight in the Eastern Conference, was Marbury’s best performance. In those more than 1 games, he averaged 2 points and 20 assists per game.

Except for Marbury, the Knicks' strongest player is Kurt Thomas, with an ability rating of 81 and an average double-double per game. No one else has more than 80. Hardaway's ability rating is 75, Shandon-Anderson's ability rating is 71, and Mutombo's ability rating is 69.

But the rich Knicks also have Vin Baker, Tim Thomas, Charlie Ward, DeMar Johnson and others on the bench.

Seeing the opponent's lineup, Liu Mang knew what the opponent was thinking. When it came to the playoffs, they still pinned their hopes on Mutombo, hoping that this veteran would recover in the playoffs. His salary of 1769 million was $96 higher than Alan Houston's salary this year. The most important thing is that this contract still has one more year...

The Knicks obviously want to play defense. Shandon Anderson is an iron man of defense, produced by the Peak Jazz. Relying on defense, he can earn 8 million after playing for 4000 years in this era, which is not an easy task.

In addition to his tough rebounds and solid mid-range shots, Kurt Thomas is also known for his toughness on the defensive end. Dirty Kurt is his best label. He is similar to the future Drummond Green and is good at irritating opponents.

Mutombo, one of the representatives of the Iron Elbow faction.

When Liu Mang saw the Knicks dispatching such a frontcourt trio, the purpose was obvious...

Want to reproduce the dark horse posture of 99?Handle them with intense physical confrontation?
very funny!
Feeling Liu Reck's playful scrutiny, Marbury came to the field holding back a burst of anger, and stuck to Liu Reck. Before the game started, he was oppressed by his body.

Liu Mang was looking at the strength of the Knicks players and guessing the tactics to deal with. Marbury suddenly came up and held Liu Mang with his arm, and Liu Mang was forced to take a step back.

"Ok?"

In Liu Mang's violent temper, he swung his left elbow back immediately, so that he could not die. The iron elbow skill that is usually ineffective at times happened to come to an effect this time. An elbow was pressed against Marbury's right chest, and Marbury was almost suffocated by the elbow!
Marbury immediately pushed Liu Mang on top of him, and Liu Mang was pushed staggeringly.

The referee had already noticed the physical contact between Liu Mang and Marbury. He thought it was just a routine pre-match provocation. Who knew Marbury's reaction was so big. When Marbury pushed Liu Mang with his right elbow, Liu Mang just returned an elbow. Marbury was pushed, and there was actually a fight!

The game hasn't started yet, and the fouls of the game cannot be called, but in order to suppress the emotions of both sides, the referee still blew his whistle!

When Liu Mang heard the whistle, he didn't continue to fight back. He immediately showed an innocent expression, raised his hands, and the meaning of "the referee pushed me" was written all over his face.

Conflict at the beginning?The fans at the scene just got excited because of Rasheed Wallace's Roar of Heaven, and now they see Marbury pushing Liu Mang, and throw all kinds of swear words at Marbury.

The players from the two teams who were going to jump the ball also gathered together. This is the home court of the Eagles. The referee did not commit any anger. He gave Marbury a technical foul and came up to warn Liu Mang and Marbury.

Seeing that he was only called a technical offender, Marbury, who had just recovered, was so aggrieved!
Obviously he was beaten even worse, why was he called a technical offender?Why doesn't this kid foul?

Coach Lenny Wilkens on the sidelines looked at Marbury with a disgruntled face, his head was big. This player has good skills, but his brain is not good. You, a point guard, ran into the opponent's half court and bumped into the opponent's point guard. There must be something wrong with his head!

……

The small episode at the beginning made the atmosphere even hotter. Before the match between the two teams started, there was already a strong smell of gunpowder.

Rasheed Wallace and Mutombo came to the center circle jump ball and were able to start again. Mutombo was very excited and won the jump ball!
The Eagles immediately retreated to the basket, Liu Mang went to defend Anfernee Hardaway, and Marbury, the most difficult to deal with, was of course handed over to Prince to deal with.

To Liu Mang's surprise, Marbury passed the ball to Anfernee Hardaway instead of coming by himself after dribbling over!
Liu Mang's defense is also very good, but there is still a gap compared to Prince. The Knicks' tactical choice is who Liu Mang defends and who holds the ball. Although this is not a good choice, Prince Marbury will vomit blood in the regular game.

It was completely beyond Liu Mang's expectation. Seeing the former Pianpian boy directing his teammates to stand, Liu Mang immediately posted it to press the defense!Faced with the old penny who suffered a series of serious injuries and his physical fitness was seriously declining, and his organizational ability basically relied on breaking through and scoring the ball, Liu Mang did not give the opponent face and chose to press and defend.

Liu Mang was careless!
The moment Liu Mang pushed up, Anfernee Hardaway's actions to direct his teammates to run were all fake moves!Suddenly pick up speed and break through to the left to accelerate the breakthrough!
Liu Mang reacted at the first time, retreated quickly, and stuck up to Anfernee Hardaway, which also prevented Anfernee Hardaway's breakthrough from going deep, but he was already pushed to the free throw line!
After Anfernee Hardaway was blocked, he immediately turned around and leaned on Liu Mang, playing a high post single!

Anfernee Hardaway is like a restless child, swaying left and right continuously, and his whole body is full of fake moves. When Liu Mang was defending, he made a wrong step, and Anfernee Hardaway seized the opportunity. Dawei grabbed the ball with his left hand and threw the ball into the air. Mutombo caught the ball and dunked it into the basket!

Liu Mang was shown off in a fancy way!
This low footsteps, the timing of this turn, and this passing ability, who the hell said that Anfernee Hardaway can only break through?
Anfernee Hardaway and Dikembe Mutombo had a great alley-oop!

But the most exciting thing is that the three-point line forcibly broke through to the free throw line and then faced Liu Mang's high-post singles. With that footstep, the old Atlanta fans couldn't help but exclaim!

When the Magic reached the finals, especially in the series that eliminated the Bulls, O'Neal's strength was of course the most critical reason, but Anfernee Hardaway alone attracted Jordan and Pippen to double-team them, causing the Bulls connected by Pippen to collapse the internal and external defense.

Anfernee Hardaway pouted and blew, drawing circles in the air while running back to the left hand that had just passed the ball.

It's like seeing the penny from the Magic back then!The idol of the stingy cousin!
It is said that Penny has a kind of aura, what is aura?That's when others feel that the ball must either be forced or passed, but Penny can always find the killing intent through his footsteps and rhythm.

Seeing Anfernee Hardaway's proud look after sending out a good assist, Liu Mang was not angry, but felt that he had learned something!
Play back, you can still play like this!
Compared with Kojo's catching and backing after getting stuck, Anfernee Hardaway's style of play may not be as lethal, but it is even more difficult to guard against!

Offensive and defensive transition, the Eagles attack.

After receiving the serve, Liu Mang pushed forward, and he became interested. He saw the defense of Shandon-Anderson, who had not lost a game in seven years from 97 to the present, and chose to attack strong!
The choice was not good, and Shandon Anderson got stuck in the first place, blocking Liu Mang's start.

Liu Mang didn't care, he just wanted to rush, and was squeezed to the side by Shandon Anderson, and when he rushed to the bottom line, he was still as far as the free throw line across the basket!
Suddenly, Liu Mang turned his back to Shandon-Anderson, and Iron Mountain leaned towards Shandon-Anderson violently.

Tieshan's level-87 power was not strong enough for Liu Mang to hit Shandon Anderson, a defensive iron man with strength of 1.9, height of 100 meters and weight of 88 kilograms, but Shanton Anderson went all out in speed to press and defend Liu Mang. His speed of [-] could only keep up with Liu Mang who hadn't fully accelerated yet.

Liu Mang immediately took the opportunity to slap the ball on the ground, turned around and passed Shanton Anderson, and rushed inside!Kurt-Thomas' defense was quick, and he immediately made up in front of Liu Mang. He was ready, and when Liu Mang wanted to play with his feet, he tripped over!
What Kurt Thomas didn't expect was that Liu Mang rushed up and turned around and leaned against him again!
When Kurt Thomas saw Liu Mang leaning against him, he was very puzzled. Is this guy going to hit him with his back?
Kurt Thomas immediately pressed on Liu Mang, wanting to directly force Liu Mang to stop the ball, and Shandon Anderson, who immediately turned around and came back, could form the perfect flank with him.

However, as soon as Kurt Thomas pushed up, Liu Mang turned around again!

Turning around twice in a row, Liu Mang spun half a circle like a small whirlwind top and stepped into the three-second zone!
only……

Looks like it turned around!

Continuously circling in circles, Liu Mang's head was a little dizzy, and this time he turned 540 degrees!The feet are starting to mix garlic!When he turned and stopped, his back was facing the basket!
Liu Mang, who was a little dizzy, turned around in a big circle and threw the ball into the air!

It's not about rushing to the basket at all, it's just a few throws!
When the fans saw Liu Mang turning around twice in a row, they were all shocked!

This is in response to Anfernee Hardaway's breakthrough hit just now, answer-ball!

Especially when Liu Mang turned around and made fun of Kurt Thomas who was defending, the cheers on the scene almost pierced the ceiling, but Liu Mang turned his head...

In an instant, the cheers at the scene stopped abruptly...

Turning around so beautifully, she turned her head!The ball thrown into the air, straight up and down, was thrown very high, and there was no way it would touch the edge of the basket at all!

Just when the fans felt black lines, saw Mutombo was about to jump up to grab the ball, and felt that Liu Mang had made a big mistake, a vigorous figure rushed in. When the ball fell and was about to fall into the hands of jumping Mutombo, this figure shot out like a cannonball, caught the ball in the air, and smashed the ball into the basket through Mutombo!

The fans who had just let out a disappointed "Oh..." immediately screamed again!
Sherif Rahim!
Liu Mang's missed ball was turned into an assist by Raheem!
Liu Mang came back to his senses in a daze, heard the cheers from the scene, saw Raheem falling from the basket through Mutombo's hand, ran to him and gave him a thumbs up and said, "Ace passed the ball really well!"

Liu Mang was shocked!
In other words, he got an extra assist?

No mistake!
This feeling is good!Liu Mang started yelling again, and ran back while pointing his right hand in circles in circles towards Anfernee Hardaway like a demonstration.

Anfernee Hardaway is okay. He has been hit hard enough by injuries, and he doesn't care about these things anymore. I don't know how many young players have fun and succeeded in beating him up.

But Marbury is so upset, this guy is too shameless!

Who can't see that it all depends on Raheem?
And Liu Mang didn't care at all, as long as he didn't make any mistakes, as for the face...is it worth it?
Offensive and defensive transition, it's the Knicks' turn to attack, Marbury advances, and just about to pass to Anfernee Hardaway, he finds that the defender has changed!
Liu Mang defends in front of Marbury, and it is too difficult to defend against Penny, who will go all out repeatedly regardless of injuries in the playoffs!Penny's three-pointers are amazing, the regular season is very average, but in the playoffs, he made many and accurate shots!As of the 2000 playoffs, Anfernee Hardaway averaged 4.5 three-pointers per game in the playoffs, and hit 1.9, with a hit rate as high as 40.00%!It was ten percentage points higher than the average level of the regular season, and the number of hits was more than doubled!So Liu Mang chose to stick to the defense in the last round, which is also the reason why Anfernee Hardaway's breakthrough in the playoffs is always unfavorable.

For such a difficult opponent, let Prince be the one who defends against Marbury and Liu Mang!
Marbury exploded!How could he not understand what Liu Mang meant?Be regarded as a soft persimmon by the other party!

　The update is a little late. I wrote most of it last night. I just returned to the company and I am a bit busy. I have a chapter each in the afternoon and evening~
　　
　
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